Transfer Private plate

rjenk74

Hello all

I have an old car which is well past its best and thus am looking to replace it. Its worth about £100 however it has a private registration that I want to keep and thus transfer to a new purchase.

I will be looking for a second hand purchase and so I can own both cars for a while if needs be if I buy private and equally will accept next to nothing if they offer a trade to save any hassle.

I looked online and it suggest you just fill in a V317 with both the old and new car details and a few weeks later it’s all done so I am unsure what happens during that gap.

If I trade my car and get both myself and the trader to fill in the form, is that it, I just wait for my new V5 then put my new reg on? However what about my old car in that time, does that need to keep the private reg until the new V5 is delivered to the owner of that?

What about if I buy a new car and own both cars so I fill in the V317 with myself as the owner of both but then sell my car in that time, does the new owner keep my private reg on until he gets the documents of the new car, but then they won’t have his address?? Or if I am selling private should I wait and do the reg transfer and ownership transfer at the same time?

Or another way should I transfer my private reg from my new car now to myself, as in stored on paper only, then once that done I can sell my old car and transfer the reg to my new car as independent process that don’t effect each other.

Apologies as I assume I am over complicating things here as this must happen a lot so please any information about the best way to achieve this would be great.

Regards
Rich

Iceweasel

Yes - you are over complicating it.

Just get the number you want to keep on retention asap and then you can do everything else at leisure.

It's incredibly easy to do on-line.

Take off - https://www.gov.uk/keep-registration-number

You pay £80 and it's valid for 10 years - once the online application is successful, you put the (usually the same) old number allocated back on your present car and you can use the retention certificate which will be issued by post to assign the personalised registration to a new vehicle.

Again it can be done on-line.

Put on - https://www.personalisedvehicleregistration.service.gov.uk/assign/vehicle-lookup

But beware - this is the new 'Beta' service which only works Monday to Saturday 08:00 to 18:00.

At other times those links will say 'Service Unavailable' or 'Page cannot be found'.

rjenk74

thanks for the reply IceWeasel, sounds like the easiest thing to do is get it transfer from my old car, and once done, sort out getting a new motor and selling the old beast!

cheers